I had a one-night stand with a printer. So, there are printers in the library here, but you have to pay 2p per page to print, plus you have to go to the library. So I thought I'd see what the second-hand store, called Where Else?, had in the way of printers. I got a printer there for 21 pounds. Pretty good, eh? (My Canadian flatmate is rubbing off on me.) But then when I got it back to my flat, it didn't work with my computer. And it's not just that it didn't work. It prints half of a page and then freaks out. Rather, just stops. And this voice from my computer says, "There is a problem with the printer." As if I need a computerized male voice to tell me that. It sounds very cheerful about it, too. Grr. So, after much coaxing and after getting Tanja and Marc (Caroline's boyfriend--oh, wait, I haven't told you about Caroline yet--wait till the next paragraph) to look at the printer, I've decided to send it back and just pay my 2p/page in the library. I actually probably won't be printing all that much. I mean, I only have one paper due for my Research Methods class, and I have no papers at all due for my Production of Texts class (which I still think is odd.) So I'm going to return the printer tomorrow. Heartbreaker.

So, Caroline is my new flatmate! She's from Belgium, and she's studying finance, and she's really nice. Marc is her boyfriend, and he's staying in the area till Tuesday to help her move in. He's nice, too. We're still waiting on one housemate. I hope she arrives soon; classes do start on Monday, after all. But for the moment, we have a really nice house dynamic. We all basically do our own thing, but we often end up in the kitchen at the same time, and we talk and laugh and share information and stuff. Very nice.

Oh, and I went grocery shopping today. I went to Sainsbury's. I got smoked salmon and peppers and tomatos and salad greens and soup. And lotion and some other stuff, but the salmon is the big news. I had smoked salmon salad tonight. I feel extremely extravagant, but I really needed a break from cheese. For the past few days, I've had cheese for lunch and dinner. Cheese sandwiches, sometimes augmented with ham, cheese omlettes, cheese in leftover nan heated in the microwave.... not a good nutritional move. So now I have Omega 3s in addition to greens, and I feel very happy. Maybe this'll stop me from waking up each morning with a stomach ache, which has been happening the past week or so. I think it might still be jet lag. Or maybe cheese.